Team

Managing Team:

Annette Sirianni

JK Chay

Managing Director and President, a native of Milwaukie, Oregon, received a BS in Business Management from Portland State University.

Ms. Sirianni has been a consistent top sales performer in both consumer and high-tech industries with extensive client relationship experience for over 25 years. During this time, she has closed a multitude of multi-million dollar major sales deals and business development transactions with fortune 500 companies such as McDonald's, IBM, Dell, CompuServe, EPSON, and HP/Compaq. She served as the vice president of sales and major accounts development for various companies. She was a licensed real estate broker for both Oregon and California.

CEO and Chairman. A graduate of Pennsylvania State University, received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) degree with a minor in Physics, and enrolled in graduate programs at WPI, Santa Clara University, and Stanford University.

Mr. Chay has over 10 years of engineering, sales, marketing, and management experience with IBM, Intel, and Samsung.

After working for the fortune 500 companies, he worked as CEO for over 15 years including dealing with various venture capital firms and private investors to fund startup companies in Oregon and California.

For the past 15 years, Mr. Chay has successfully completed various real estate investment, development, and construction projects to include agricultural, residential, and retail commercial properties.

In the recent years, together with Ms. Sirianni, Mr. Chay founded 7Bev to develop, market, and distribute craft beverage products in the global marketplaces.

Alex Reichl

General Legal Counsel. Mr. Reichl is also the CEO of eVentures Law Group, Inc. (“EVLG”). EVLG is a boutique law firm whose practice emphasizes providing personalized attention and counsel to select emerging, high-growth companies, high net worth investors, serial entrepreneurs, and small to medium sized venture funds and real estate concerns from inception through all aspects of financing, growth, and acquisition.

EVLG was founded in 1998 by Alex W. Reichl, Esq., its principal, and since its inception, has successfully and cost-effectively represented its clients in countless business transactions and negotiations in the Silicon Valley and has closed over $500M in transactions.

Mr. Reichl attended and graduated from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley with distinction.

International Team:

Ping Dai

Jeewan Kim

Jose Bernardo Gonzalez

Chief Representative of 7Bev China and General Manager of JSRCO, a trading company in Tianjin, China.

Mr. Gonzalez, a native Oregonian, is also President/Principal Broker of Tu Casa Real Estate, which has been serving the community for 20 years. He is the founding Board President of the Latino Business Alliance, the Willamette Valley's Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

Jose serves his community in various roles, including the Salem Mayor's International Council, Marion County Sheriff's Community Advisory Committee, Oregon Community Foundation Leadership Council, and Farmworker Housing Development Corporation Board Member. He also had the honor of being invited to the White House on behalf of Immigrant Entrepreneurs.

Advisory Team:

Bob Patterson

Forrest Peck

President of MKTX since its founding in 1998, Bob Patterson has over 30 years of experience in high-tech marketing. He began his career at Intel Corporation where, during his 11 year tenure, he was part of the team of people instrumental in laying the foundations for Intel's success in the microprocessor market.

Bob left Intel in 1987 to co-found RadiSys Corporation, an Intel spin-off dedicated to exploiting the "Wintel" hardware/software standardization phenomenon in markets outside of desktop computing.

As RadiSys' first VP of marketing and sales, Bob developed and executed the company's initial marketing plans and set up RadiSys' early sales channels. Bob received a bachelors degree in electrical engineering, a masters degree in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Wharton School.

Forrest Peck is the Director of Microenterprise Resources, Initiatives & Training (MERIT) and has worked for them since August, 2007. He is a former business owner, involved in the manufacturing and sale of leather purses and belts.

He has over 25 years of experience in finance and community development from his employment with the USDA (Farmers Home Administration and Rural Development) and Seattle Mortgage Company. He has a bachelor’s degree in agriculture, and prior experience in starting a non-profit organization (Monmouth Legacy Forest).

He serves his community of Independence as a City Councilor, is a member of the Oregon Microenterprise Network Board of Directors and former member of the Polk Soil and Water Conservation District budget committee. He is responsible for all MERIT day-to-day administration and decision making, and provides advising, teaching and other client support to entrepreneurs.